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Manon Berney

Trainee lawyer
Litigation in contract law
Litigation in commercial law
Contract law
Company law

About

After having spent 9 years in Montréal, Canada, where she worked as an in-house counsel for a private company, Manon Berney is currently back in Switzerland and works as a trainee lawyer at Wilhelm Avocats. She remains registered as a lawyer at the Montreal Bar.

 

On December 2017, Manon Berney obtained the Bar exam from the Montreal Bar Association. She was admitted to the Bar of Quebec in August 2018.

 

She has also an LL.M. in Business Law from the Laval University.

 

She has worked pro bono for the Housing legal department of Brooklyn, NYC. She practices in French and English. She is active in business law, corporate law and contract law.

Qualifications, training and professional experience

01.08.2018
Attorney-at law. Member of the Quebec bar.
2017
Bar exam, Bar law school, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
From 01.06.2015
Of Counsel, Wilhelm Avocats
2015
LL.M. in Business Law, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
2014 - 2015
Attorney-at-law, Wilhelm Avocats, Lausanne
2014
Voluntary pro bono lawyer at Brooklyn Legal Services, Housing Law Unit, New York City, USA
2013 - 2014
Voluntary pro bono lawyer at Bushwick Housing Independence Project, Brooklyn, New York City, USA
2012 - 2013
Clerk at the Civil Court of Geneva, Switzerland
2012
Master in Law, University of Lausanne Law School, Switzerland
From 2012
Voluntary pro bono lawyer at ASLOCA, Lausanne, Switzerland
2009
Bachelor in Law, University of Lausanne Law School, Switzerland

Languages

English, French, German, Spanish